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perience the noblest picture of the Divine nature 

 the most powerful incentive to industry, that can be 

 communicated in our brief career while here upon 

 earth. In reading the writings of others we flag, 

 we slumber, and we often desist from instruction to 

 which we are not wakeful enough to hearken hear- 

 ing even the most elegant admonitions, we are not en- 

 thusiastic. Not so the admonitions which the angler 

 sees, and hears, nay, often feels, in his wanderings. 

 These never pall upon " the stomach of his sense." 

 They are fresh and invested with new beauty every 

 visit. They penetrate into his bosom, and mingle 

 in the actions and feelings of his daily life. Every 

 thing he has to do may be doubled nay, rendered 

 tenfold, by the vigour and newness of spirit com- 

 municated by his love of the " gentle craft. " But 

 whatever route the angler may find it convenient to 

 take, we shall give a sketch of the rivers in such a 

 manner as will, it is hoped, aiford him all the infor- 

 mation he requires. 



Leaving the Mth and its tributaries, let the ang- 

 ler dash on to the TJrr, in Kirkcudbrightshire, dis- 

 tance about fourteen miles. This is an excellent 

 angling stream. It springs out of Loch Urr, on the 

 confines of Dumfriesshire, and has a run of more 

 than thirty miles, taking its numerous windings in- 

 to calculation. It has but few feeders, and those are 

 of little or no moment. For several miles from the 

 loch out of which it springs, its streams are small, 

 and, in dry seasons, not well adapted for fly-fishing. 

 But they deepen and widen as they proceed on their 



